New user Leo Laporte, known US tech journalist, documents his switch to FreeBSD after being an avid and longtime Linux user. Read about his findings on why and how he chose to go with FreeBSD as a robust solution for his next project.

The latest debacle over the “forced” upgrade to Windows 10 and Apple’s increasingly locked-in ecosystem has got me thinking. Do I really need to use a proprietary operating system to get work done? And while I’m at it, do I need to use commercial cloud services to store my data?

I’ve always used Linux since the first time I tried installing Slackware in the mid-90s. In 1998 we were the first national TV show to install Linux live (Red Hat). And I’ve often advocated Ubuntu to people with older computers. I usually have at least one computer running Linux around, in the past couple of years Dell XPS laptops have been great choices. And a couple of months ago I bought a 17″ Oryx laptop from System76, an Ubuntu system integrator, for use in studio.

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude interview Dru Lavigne — documentation specialist and FreeBSD docs committer. In addition, they discuss a Kernel Fuzing audit done for OpenBSD and improvements to the ‘C’ client for LetsEncrypt.

User Eric McCorkle gives us an update on his FreeBSD on the Librem notebook. He started the project in this post back in April on getting the FreeBSD operating system set up on Librem, a laptop that caters to freedom and privacy.

I’ve been working on my FreeBSD setup for Purism’s Librem 13 laptop ever since receiving it back in April. I’m relatively pleased with the way things have progressed, and most of the critical issues have been addressed. However, the setup still has a way to go in my opinion before it gets to the point of being the “ideal” setup.

Current State

Three of the four critical issues I identified back in April have been addressed:

Matt Macy’s i915 graphics patch works well on the Librem 13, and I personally made sure that the suspend/resume support works. The patch is very stable on the Librem, and I’ve only had one kernel panic the entire time testing it.

The HDMI output Just Works™ with the i915 driver. Even better, it works for both X11 and console modes.

Full support for the Atheros 9462 card has been merged in. I’ve had some occasional issues, but it works for the most part.

The vesa weirdness is obviated by i915 support, but it was resolved by using the scfb driver.

This BSD Magazine issue features the BeaST Architecture by Mikhail, Docker, Python, FreeNAS, MySQL, in addition to an article about Brexit by Rob Somerville. Download the PDF or EPUB from the link below.

Dear Readers,

We hope you have been doing well. Holiday season has started, both public holidays and vacation. How was the 4th of July in the USA and Canada’s day? 1st of July? Did you have a great time with your friends and families? If you are not based in North America, let us know what and when is the most important holiday in your country!

We all love holidays, but let’s dive into this month’s issue. As always, we will start with news from the industry. There has been a lot going on in the open source world.

Enjoy your holidays and let us know what topics you would like us to cover in upcoming issues.

This tutorial by user Romil Bheda shows us how to get a FreeBSD virtual machine set up in the Azure Marketplace. FreeBSD was recently added as an option to Microsoft’s cloud virtualization platform. See the link below for the full instructions.

FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

Microsoft has invested in porting their virtualization support (Hyper-V) for FreeBSD. Hyper-V support is available for FreeBSD-9 through the ports tree, but starting with FreeBSD-10 support for Hyper-V is included in the main tree. Currently 10.3 of FreeBSD version is available.

Azure VM guest agent is also available for the communication between FreeBSD Virtual Machine and Azure Fabric. This can perform various operations such as provisioning the virtual machine on first use and enabling the functionality for the selective virtual machine extensions.

This tutorial by user jamalshahverdiev shows us how to get FreeSWITCH set up on FreeBSD 10.1. FreeSWITCH is an open source voice over IP protocol. FusionPBX acts as an voice application server. See the link below for full instructions.

Our purpose of install FreeSWITCH to FreeBSD 10.1x64 server and configure with WEB server. For that firstly we must install and configure FAMP (FreeBSD Apache MySQL PHP) to our server. But in php5-extensions you must choose modules as below:

The developers of FreeBSD have made available the 1st BETA. Notable changes are updates to the KMS drivers, improvements to the Linux binary compatibility layer and Bhyve virtualization, and more.

Installer images and memory stick images are available here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/
The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/11" branch.
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the 11-CURRENT release notes:
https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/article.html
Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.0-RELEASE cycle progresses.

EuroBSDcon 2016 is now open for registration. This annual conference will be held in Belgrade, Serbia from September 22 to 25, 2016.

About

EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems family and related projects.

EuroBSDcon gives the exceptional opportunity to learn about latest news from the BSD world, witness contemporary deployment case studies, and meet personally other users and companies using BSD oriented technologies. EuroBSDcon is also a boiler plate for ideas, discussions and information exchange, which often turn into programming projects.

The conference has always attracted active programmers, administrators and aspiring students, as well as IT companies at large, which found the conference a convenient and quality training option for its staff. We firmly believe that high profile education is vital to the future of technology, and hence greatly welcome students and young people to this regular meeting.

EuroBSDcon is run under the umbrella of the EuroBSDcon Foundation, a registered non-profit organisation in The Netherlands. You can contact us using the site contact form.

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Jim Brown, known for the BSD Certification, regarding his homebrew sprinkler system running none other than FreeBSD. Hit play below to tune in:

User kena42 shows us how to get CockroachDB running in a FreeBSD jail. CockroachDB is an open source SQL database that is currently in its BETA stage. See the link below for the full instructions.

Jails are FreeBSD’s native solution to contain and isolate server processes. They are an alternative to (and predate) Linux cgroups, Solaris zones, and other OS-level process isolation technologies (the technologies that underlie Docker, CoreOS and a few others) .

This blog post will explain how to natively run CockroachDB in a FreeBSD jail. This is lighter weight and as secure as running Docker on FreeBSD.